Lake Bell is an American actress, screenwriter, producer and director whose acting credits include No Escape, Man Up, It’s Complicated, What Happens in Vegas, How to Make It in America, Children’s Hospital, and Bless This Mess, which she also co-created and produced. She has written and directed two feature films, In a World… and I Do… Until I Don’t and is currently developing her third original film, which she wrote, will direct and star in. Bell recently directed two episodes of the Hulu series Pam and Tommy, starring Lily James, Sebastian Stan and Seth Rogen. She currently stars as the lead voice in the animated, award-winning Sundance film Cryptozoo by Dash Shaw, as Poison Ivy in DC Universe’s Harley Quinn, and as Black Widow in Marvel’s What If series. Bell completed her four years of drama conservatory training at The Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama in London and serves as an active board member of Women In Film, a non-profit advocating for the success of female peers in the entertainment industry. Bell was born in New York City and lives in Los Angeles with her two children.